CNAME Record

There are many ways to direct a domain name to another domain or subdomain and one of them is by setting up a CNAME record. When you own a domain name and you have set up a site through some online service which supplies you with a service subdomain, you could easily link the two by setting up a CNAME record for your-domain.com that redirects to subdomain.provider.com. What you're going to achieve with this is that www.your-domain.com will be in the web browser address bar while it opens the already mentioned website from the servers of the third-party company. It is essential to know that if you create a CNAME record, any other records your domain address may have will stop working, so you can't have both a CNAME record directing to one company and working email addresses with another one. The CNAME record is always an alpha string, not a number, and frequently additional configuration may be required with the other provider.

If you have a website hosting plan through our company and you wish to set up a CNAME record, it'll take you a few mouse clicks to get it done. You can access the DNS records for all domain names and subdomains hosted in your account from the Hepsia CP that comes with each and every plan and adding a new record is as simple as clicking on a button, picking out the type, which is CNAME in this case, typing the actual record value and saving the modification. If you've never added this kind of record before, you will discover a Help section with a detailed video tutorial which you can watch, or you can simply contact us and we'll help you with this task. If you have built an Internet site via another provider, you want to use a private URL for your webmail or you wish to designate a subdomain for use with the services of a different provider, for instance Google Apps, all it takes is creating a CNAME record with a few clicks within your Control Panel.

You are going to be able to set up, modify and delete CNAME records easily with all of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are controlled from the custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel, and in one of its sections you'll see all records for any domain address or subdomain that you've added in your account. To create a new record, you just have to choose the hostname which will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), type in where it is going to be forwarded to, select the record type, that'll be CNAME in this case, and you'll be ready. Even if you have never used a web hosting service before, our CP is quite intuitive to use, so you will not have any issues. We also have a short video and a detailed help article on how to set up a CNAME record, both of which could be found in the exact same section of Hepsia. With this function, you could easily use a domain hosted on our innovative cloud hosting platform for an Internet site created somewhere else, create a custom webmail login address with any of your domains, and much more.